skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are nearing the end of their existence. It looks to me that they even run their own content farms just to carry ads and report you doomscrolling through that sea of garbage as "engagement". Just like those default "Brides by Mail" ads you see on YouTube when you switch your browser to incognito mode.
Did the crap people didn't need in these eBay listings improve the world with their lower prices? I don't think folks are buying groceries there.
Buy a Yubikey. The second factor takes one second.
People working on developer docs would do well to make them work well in terminal-based browsers, too. This should be the norm.
U.S. v. Jones and Riley v. California aren't that clear cut.

IIRC they both said that mass surveillance that would "out" people's private lives (e.g. going to a gay club) might cross the boundary into an unreasonable search.
MySpace. That's where they are heading.
I’m a non-Hispanic male in my mid-50’s and I occasionally get diaper ads on YouTube, or random ads in Spanish. I’m moderately privacy conscious, but I don’t do anything drastic to mask my activity. If the big tech companies are surveilling me so thoroughly, they’re not always doing a great job using that info.
Recently I almost completed one that was equal parts data harvesting form and job application.

The original link was through a third-party job board. The job board tried to trick me into signing up in order to jump to the posting.

The job "app" itself was actually two applications. One was an automated resume parser that was just... incorrect. The second was a manual-entry form that asked for the same information. :D

Funny enough, I got to the "Why do you want to work for A Shady Company with Questionable Morals?" series of questions I was actually given a chance to stop and sober up to the idea:

A human being (allegedly) put together the most byzantine hiring process to conceal something, and if they actually do hire someone, it will be a self-selected fanatic who needs the cash more than the indulgence.
This seems like a random meme designed to avoid drawing a basic line of responsiblity between fossil fuel emissions and the costs they impose on many people. That's one discussion.

Another discussion is if you chose to connect those - then how do you distribute the costs - and some allocation picked to inflame the discussion seems to be avoid the first issue while assuming some particular lopsided distribution.
Isn’t crime down significantly, decade over decade?
By the way, Windows 11 Pro is pretty much a scam now. "If it is free, you're the product" well it seems even if you pay you are still the product too. It installs adware if you use Google Chrome and launches that whenever it pleases (usually in the middle of using Chrome).

And remember: no refunds! I asked.
> the article says that insurance agencies can only look at historic risk, not future risk

The article actually doesn't say that, that's a quote from a different article that I linked to above. The article only mentions the increased risk of wildfires and doesn't place any blame on California's regulatory environment at all.

My other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260160
It was for a chief of staff position.

The company sells hiring assessments software so it makes sense that they used their own product, it was just at a completely wrong part of the hiring funnel and highlighted, to me, what seemed like an incredibly cynical view of what hiring should look like.
Two things can be true at once. A dog can have ticks and fleas.
It will bring home ownership costs way up as it has in Florida. It would also allow corporations who can self-insure to have a leveraged capital advantage to buying up homes - which doesn't help individual people who want to own homes.

The pressures of climate change disasters is a increasing bar of costs everywhere, home insurance is one of the first very visible places that is a predictor. We're going to have to figure out if we're ok with privitized fossil fuel profits with companies paying little to no taxes, while the costs land in very concrete ways on individual and gov't budgets.
Compare actual crime rates of today in the US to as recently as the 1970s, and even including the small spike that happened during pandemic lockdowns, you're better off in a 'dangerous' inner city now than you would have been in a 'safe' suburb then.

Of course, we still won't know for another generation or two if the drop over time is because we're doing anything societally better, or just the effects over time of banning leaded gasoline.
One of the main contributors gave an excellent talk [0] on Verus at the Rust meetup in Zürich. I was really impressed how clean this "ghost" code fits into programs (reminded me a bit of Ada).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTk-zS4ZCY
> “It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it,” Lucas said at the time. “But I want it to be the way I want it to be.”

its interesting... out of many projects i've worked on, i've had to cut-down from what originally i wanted to make, and looking back at them, i think some of them were better for it... perhaps my original ideas were too much and some things not being attainable at the time accidentally made it better?

i wonder if its like that for the original trilogy?
This has such back to the fifties sentiment (leave door unlocked) and I resent that solely for the fact that women had far fewer rights back then.

Yet I feel for you as I myself still live in a country with a functioning government and a police force that is there to help citizens and not just there to protect the rich.

That said, your approach to porch package thieves is missing the point. You don’t steal if you are doing well. Tons of people barely getting by with little to no safety net. Catch a porch pirate and another steps in. But solving the root cause for theft is a political thing and given current political circumstances, caring about people is seen as weak by half of the electorate.
I got it from the line about how they trained their robot models - think of Amazon pivoting to aws, the substrate becomes the commodity. Unless you're asking if it makes sense, or what went wrong? Then I don't know. I imagine startups that survive usually pivot from something else?
Unless when less intelligent humans are still there and the bots are state agents spoon feeding them propaganda
While overall automated traffic is a problem, I'm a bit more concerned about bots in comment sections or social media in particular. Unfortunately, bad actors are deploying them to shift public opinion in ways I don't think we fully comprehend and are deeply underestimating the negative effects. Political parties, foreign interference, public relations firms, etc... It's unsettling to think about.

I've often seen freshly posted articles covering a controversial geopolitical topic and within less than 2-3 minutes the comment section is inundated with similarly aligned comments all liked or upvoted to immediately place them at the top of section. But, it gets better, opposing opinion comments are poorly constructed disliked or down voted. Of course, there's the chance that I'm completely wrong, but I cannot shake the feeling that it is not organic human interaction taking place.
The perils of outcome-based analysis
It's ok as long as the ads are delivered over TLS...
the ISS was definitely worth the cost.
Sure, by future I meant immediate future, as in the next 0-5 years, not the long term 10+ year future for SpaceX.
A Subreddit for Game Engine Devs
Is there any relationship between this and Kani[1]? Do they work differently?

[1] https://github.com/model-checking/kani
I feel you. Unfortunately once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Any attempt at revival seems corny and contrived and lacks any gravitas.
I dont. I overoptimise, over systematise, and over engineer a note taking solution, and then never actually use it.

Jokes aside, I do find note taking to be a disruptive context switch a lot of the time.

The best way I found to get around this when reading non-fiction is to 1) read a chapter/article through once from beginning to end without taking any notes or even paying particular attention (optional step if time poor, but genuinely helpful), 2) reread more attentively now that I have some bird's-eye view of the author's intent and structure of the chapter/article, occassionally taking little mental notes or asking myself questions, but not usually taking written notes, 3) go through the text paragraph by paragraph, taking copious notes (optionally blended with the next step if time poor), 4) write section summaries, what was the author's intent in writing this section, what arguments did they present, what evidence did they use to strengthen their position, and does anything immediately leap to mind that is relevant, or challenges what the author is saying?, 5) read through the text one last time, double checking you've understood what the author is saying before writing a short summary of the text, presenting the same things as the section summaries, but at a greater distance.

Obviously, this can be extremely expensive. To the point that you can't possibly use it for every or even most texts that you encounter. However I have used this technique at a graduate level to understand in detail texts that left other students completely flummoxed. So if you are in a situation where a single text is key to you understanding something you need to learn, this is extremely effective.

Edit: I forgot to mention, that you should take notes in full form prose both as if you were explaining it to someome who wasn't reading the text. Furthermore, reread notes immediately after and ask yourself questions to check you've really understood the botes you've taken. This is why reading the text top to bottom at least once before any note taking is important in my view, because it helps you avoid ignoring lack of understanding on the assumption that the text will clear up something later on, when it may require active attention from you.

Furthermore, feel free to hope around and reference the text while taking notes and double checking your understanding, but I recommend taking the notes in strict linear order in most cases.
Currently reading Ministry for the Future, so far it’s just pretty depressing
I think it was a reference to Liar’s Poker.
'To-day and To-morrow': The 100-year-old book series that predicted a wild
I don't need my clothing to fit that well.

With the rise in scraping, impersonation, identity falsification? Not even slightly interested in full body scan tech.

Driver's License? The crooks will probably have a much easier time than me going to the DMV.

Put you somewhere you weren't with video generators? Hey, they've got a hi-res, full-body naked file of you for reference on video addition and substitution.

Why does the IRS' think this account's more me than me? Much better at video substituting your fake face for ID.me than the nonsense of you trying to use the ID.me cell phone app.

Print your face out as a mask Mission Impossible style and use your identity during robberies. The list goes on and on.

And these people never seem to delete anything properly, no matter how much you check. Ex: See food kiosks that photograph every customer, for some reason, with no deletion. (was in a college or factory somewhere earlier)
Not that cats are particularly relevant to human infection, but cats seem to suffer blindness, neurological impairment and death.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of...
I remember seeing this a bit ago when it was crackpipe! Glad the name got changed haha
I tried to do the pre-signed URL thing but gave up quickly. I don't know how you'd do it properly. You're going to want a record of that in your database, right? So what, you have the client upload the image and then send a 2nd request to your server to tell you they uploaded it?

I ended up piping it through my server. I can limit file size, authenticate, insert it into my DB and do what not this way.
Many insurers are not issuing any new policies, and not renewing policies. Maybe this article focuses on a small part of that, but only demonstrates that the problem is growing.
Are you also considering ladybird?
a few million years ago there were land mammals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Bathans_mammal
Because I considered it a good starting point as I can place a redirect notice there if we move to another place, without worrying we will lose the DNS again. If you want to help, feel free to do so :-)
It later turned out Target sent some of those ads to all families, blindly—it wasn’t causally related to the daughter’s pregnancy. Whoops.

But this way makes a better story.
"Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2022...FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate between 1993 and 2022"[1]

My take would be the job that the police aren't doing is traffic enforcement, and driving has gotten noticeably worse in the last decade.

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
That's a category error. JS is a programming language. All the bells and whistles you mention are part of Web platform machinery with APIs through JS-level bindings accessible to programs written by website authors. The language/dialect has little to do with it; you're envisioning a different stack that would require a new browser engine, not a language.
Maybe they flew north? I've seen plenty of them in Maryland this spring.
A match thrown down in a healthy forest won’t produce a massive apocalyptic firestorm.

No matter the time of year.

Even back in the 70’s the National Park service in Yosemite knew the existing forest management practice was creating apocalyptic fire risk (and the ‘91 Yosemite fire bore that out) but until very recently, practices across the state have been unchanged.

[https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/firehistory.htm]

Defacto, walk through the forests in California and the build up of brush is monumental. Along the coasts and in the Sierra Nevada. Many areas are impassible, except those that have burned recently.
One attempt, XULRunner didn't work out.
No, that's not correct, otherwise SB 1060 would not be moving through the Senate. It's specifically direct insurance companies to consider mitigation.

You also missed the part that the mitigation is only for vegetation hardening. Nothing about structure specific hardening. Which, even if you did control for the vegetation, which AB38 addressed, you're still not guaranteed a discount.

https://sd13.senate.ca.gov/news/press-release/april-24-2024/...

https://fire.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AB38-In...
Some tools, I have come across to deal with the “copy of source material” issue.

Depending on your source material, you might be able to use things like Zotero and Obsidian to annotate and export them into text files, for PDFs and webpages even I think. Just coming out from helping someone setup the workflow.

But if it is more like code or video, I am not certain. For me Emacs org-mode has been a huge help. I can insert links to the source content like code either directly to files or GitHub permalinks and write down my notes, have code highlights and even in some cases run the code and have results inserted back into docs.
Unless they're claiming twitter and such ARE half of the internet??

In term of traffic I wouldn't be surprised https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/...

A lot of yt, Facebook, Instagram, twitter, amazon, or reddit, &c. are bot repost/rehash/content farms/disguised ads
I'll leave this little perl here:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-n...
A fork of rust-analyzer, called verus-analyzer, provides support for Verus syntax and actions (including new proof-specific actions) https://github.com/verus-lang/verus-analyzer/
If ring cameras haven’t made communities safer (doubt), they certainly have made it much easier to get video evidence of criminals. Pretty much any real life criminal case heavily relies on pulling surveillance data from private residences now.

That being said, fuck this surveillance state.
in the comment you are replying to, i specifically said that the usa is an exception to this general rule
People are very bad at understanding how large scale data collection works: namely, that it's entirely based on the law of large numbers. No one except under very specific circumstances cares who you are specifically, they care that they're right about that somewhat better then 50% of the time.

Accidentally misfiring an ad has no consequences if it doesn't happen in place of a better targeted ad and you don't reliably abandon the platform as a result.
I think you're not entirely wrong, but the dinosaur remains are fossilized, and that requires special conditions.

I know a load of human remains and accouterments were found in bogs.

Regards to the glaciers, I suppose there are ranges of effects. The Canadian Shield had all topsoil shorn away, in most places even now it's just a few feet of soil then granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield#Ecologyq

In such areas, nothing survived. Shell middens would be wiped away.

I may have over stated, but my point was it won't be as easy as some think.
>Explicitly copying data to/from GPUs is a definite nuisance.

CXL allows fine grained shared memory, but people look at the shiny high bandwidth NVLink and talk about how much better it is for... AI.
I’m mostly a doomer these days, but I do think that SRM could at least buy enough time to see me through before it all goes to hell.
> Just grab another (cheap) domain

The post explains how they lost their long-held domain name. At least GitHub won't dry up and blow away if you miss a payment.

They're all cheap at the start... and do not necessarily stay that way.

The very end of the post makes it clear this is a temporary situation.
Artifact Attestations–now in public beta – The GitHub Blog
Show HN: CLI tool for using Timeular tracker with other time-tracking software
Hello, I build a tool to use the Timeular tracker with different time trackers, because I was mad they charge for monthly subscription for their tracker app on top of already expensive device.

I'm convinced the code is shite, so any and all advice is appreciated.

Obligatory written in rust™
For financed homes, isn’t this a mandatory line item? Banks, especially regional banks in CA, probably really nervous as these polices lapse.
I'd describe my method in three steps:

Step one: Collect as much as possible. Don't worry about what's important or not, you don't know enough to make that judgement yet.

Step two: Make it shorter. Paraphrase a direct quote, remove unnecessary info, make it more useful to your future self, anticipate what you'd be looking for in the future, you're your target audience. The thing that works the best for me is limiting myself to a very short bullet point list (3-5 items) right at the top of the note. That way, if I need to remind myself of more than that, all I have to do is just scroll down.

Step three: Never open a note without making some changes to it, even if it's just fixing punctuation or re-ordering things. That way, the most important notes are always significantly better, more complete than the ones I don't particularly care about. But, I don't feel obliged to chase that perfection from the start, if it happens, it happens organically.
Your binary take is not how American law works nor has it ever worked that way.

Utilizing the intent of the law/ruling is a completely valid school of legal thought that is regularly practiced.

If you disagree with it, you may wish to talk to your state legislature about proposing a constitutional amendment barring the practice. But incorrectly claiming how it isn’t how things work won’t change this practice.
Appears there's no confusion about the number of possible other clothing design packages from current comments...

However, as an OSS project thing, the video of a pillow/cushion getting made was pretty interesting for the auto-edge-stiching function. https://xn--6xw240d.net/img/20200620215506.mp4

From a background in graphics, it's a neat way to have edges grab and join. Maybe 3D modeling already uses this stuff somewhere in high end? Haven't seen much of just putting two 2D shapes near each other, and then making a 3D inflated design with edge grabs. Seems like it would be nice for hobby games / apps, where you could draw a character front/back, and then inflate to ~3D shape. Might exist, and be my lack of awareness of the community.
I've never run a start-up (successful or otherwise :) ) but I've also heard that being able to pivot can be really useful - Flickr is often cited as an example.

Also, "GPU on demand" sounds _a_lot_ easier than "drone-based delivery". Between Seti@Home/Folding@Home/etc, various grid-computing/clustering/orchestration stacks that already exist, etc it seems reasonably doable to implement in a year or so. "drone-based delivery" sounds capital-intensive, sounds like you'll need to spend a lot of time building a professional network of business people who might use the service (so there's a 'cultural friction' between techie founders and business folks, potentially), plus the ever-looming threat of Amazon/etc figuring this out first.

tl;dr: I agree it's weird pivot, and good on the founders for being able to make the change! :)
that is sometimes true in a few countries like the usa, but in most of america they have a reinforced concrete structure rather than a wood one. new structural brick is quite rare because brick is weak and expensive
OpenMP has been around for a long time. People know how to use it, and it has gained many features that are useful for scientific computing.

The consortium behind OpenMP consists mostly of hardware companies and organizations doing scientific computing. Software companies are largely missing. That may contribute to the popularity of OpenMP, as the interests of scientific computing and software development are often different.
You should probably learn.
Again I love how posts like these have no context what a Dillo is. While it's not hard to find that info out on my own, it could have also been done by the poster.

kudos on shipping code I guess.
TSA Touchless ID Will Put Clear Out of Business
In my country, there's a guy who actually did it. An anarchocapitalist named Daniel Fraga. Just a completely surreal guy. Police would show up to his house and he'd film himself calling them parasites of the state to their faces. Used to make videos criticizing the system, the government, the courts, the judges. Eventually tried to expose corruption. Government tried to freeze his accounts and discovered he had $1 in them. He had gone all in on bitcoin. To this day I believe the government has not seen the money. One day he just kinda disappeared. He's either in some paradise enjoying his billions or dead.
In America, the pair of continents are know as "the Americas". Every American knows singular 'America' refers to America.

> But in other countries we say-

Other countries exist?
What's so unique about this compared to just using RunPod?
Maybe low hanging fruit only hang low in hindsight. There’s a kind of control-certainty associated with some things, we got this, and there are some things where we at least know what we need to work on. Other things are more vague. So we now have more of the first category (in some areas) and this makes the apples appear to be lower than they were and most likely still are.
I went to Yale—and I think two-parent families are more important than college
Love the concept.

I've used vast.ai (similar "Airbnb for GPUs" pitch) for years to spin up cheap test machines with GPUs you can't really find in the cloud (and especially consumer-grade GPUs like 4090s). Any insight into how this is different/better?